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Nonprofit Staff Training: How to Create an Effective Plan

NXUnite

For instance, you might be trying to promote more matching gifts and determine that you need to educate staff members on how to speak about these opportunities with donors. Ensure that you’re directing your resources to the right areas by sending out a survey to your staff members upfront. Identify staff training needs and topics.

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From Passive to Passionate: How to Supercharge Member Engagement

Association Freak

Measuring Engagement with Precision While offering a starting point, traditional surveys are limited in capturing the full spectrum of member engagement and retention. Imagine relying solely on surveys to gauge a student’s performance—you might miss valuable insights from class participation or project work.

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How to Think Like a Futurist

WBT Systems

But every association has a distinct audience who may behave differently than how trend-spotters predict. If you want to identify the most relevant trends for your membership, learn how to think like a futurist. McGonigal teaches a class at Stanford, How to Think Like a Futurist. Here’s how to practice this mindset.

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How to Promote the Value of Credentials to Individuals & Employers

Membersuite

Survey and arrange focus groups with current and past certificants as well as those who are not credentialed. Also consider surveying employers around their needs and requirements for employees that are certified. The post How to Promote the Value of Credentials to Individuals & Employers appeared first on MemberSuite, Inc.

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13 Membership Drive Ideas for Events & More (Plus How to Run a Campaign!)

EventMobi: Association Events

How Do I Create a Membership Drive? Here’s how to organize and execute your campaign in 9 simple steps! Better yet, survey your current members to ask what you could be doing better! Workshop Does your organization specialize in offering certain classes, certificates, or professional development opportunities? PST spot !

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How to Build an Online Learning Program with a Limited Budget

WBT Systems

Remember, people may say one thing in a survey about their interests, but their behavior may be more telling. Talk to other segments of your audience via surveys, polls, and focus groups. You can offer educational content as stand-alone units, as part of a class, and also as part of a learning pathway. Clicked links in emails.

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How to Validate an Online Course Idea

WBT Systems

They’re making millions of dollars in revenue, so they’re doing something right, for example, knowing how to validate an online course idea. What they do is more revealing of their true needs than what they might have told you in a survey last year—or what your committee is telling you now. No demand, no students. If not, find out why.

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